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Thesis; William Faulkner has been called one of the most important writers in the history of American literature as shown by, his ground breaking stories, brilliant language, and numerous accolades

Frenz, Horst. "William Faulkner - Biography." NobelPrize.org. Elsevier Publishing Company, 1969. Web. 30 Apr 2010. <http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1949/faulkner-bio.html>.
  1. Born in Mississippi, where most of his stories take place.
  2. Joined Canadian army
  3. Then later British royal air force.
  4. In attempt to create a sort of saga Faulkner created books that take place in the south
  5. and off current events in the south.
  6. Worked at a new york book store
  7. Worked at new Orleans newspaper
  8. Made trips to Europe and Asia
  9. Worked in Hollywood as a script writer.
  10. Worked on stories on a farm in oxford.fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi
  11. Created drama stretching over half a century
  12. Each novel took place in imaginary Yoknapatawpha County
  13. and it's inhabitants
  14. represented by the Sartoris and Compson families
  15. emergence of ruthless and brash newcomers, the Snopeses.
  16. the distortion of time through the use of the inner monologue are fused particularly successfully in The Sound and the Fury
  17. the downfall of the Compson family seen through the minds of several characters
  18. The novel Sanctuary is about the degeneration of Temple Drake, a young girl from a distinguished southern family
  19. sequel, Requiem For A Nun, written partly as a drama, centered on the courtroom trial of a Negro woman who had once been a party to Temple Drake's debauchery
  20. Faulkner wrote a lot about race and discrimination between blacks and whites.

Pucci, Anthony. "Weinstein, Philip. Becoming Faulkner: The Art and Life of William Faulkner." Library Journal 134.16 (2009): 78. Student Resource Center - Gold. Web. 30 Apr. 2010.

  1. Writing between 1929-1942
  2. Faulkner had a failed elopement with Estelle Oldham
  3. Later had a failed marriage with her also.
  4. His great grand father was a civil war hero
  5. His great-grand father fathered a child with a black servant.
  6. This had an effect in his writing.
  7. Faulker had problems with depression and alcoholism
  8. This also effected his writing
  9. Faulkner was an outspoken opponent of the civil rights movement.
  10. Fabricated heroic service in WWI

"William Faulkner: Bibliography." Answers. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 Apr 2010. http://www.answers.com/topic/william-faulkner.
  1. Wrote "As i lay dying"
  2. many stories took place in fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi
  3. Faulkner's writings gave an almost mythological status to the culture of the southeastern United States.
  4. He also wrote screenplays for Hollywood
  5. including the 1944 adaptation of Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep
  6. His most famous novels include The Sound and the Fury (1929)
  7. Soldier's Pay(1926)
  8. Absalom! Absalom! (1936)
  9. and Mosquitoes (1962)
  10. In 1949 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature
  11. for his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel.
  12. Changed his name to get into royal air force in Canada
  13. He was too short for American air force.
  14. He joined but never made it over seas
  15. Name at birth: William Cuthbert Faulkner
  16. Born: 25 September 189
  17. Died: 6 July 1962 (heart attack)
  18. Best Known As: American author of As I Lay Dying
  19. Faulker was preceded as Nobel Laureate by T.S Elliot (1948)
  20. and followed by Bertrand Russel (1950).

Flemming, Thomas. "US History Companion: Faulkner, William." American History Companion. 1. 1. Print.
  1. Considered by many critics to be America's greatest writer
  2. Faulkner wrote novels and stories that are drenched with a sense of history's (and the South's) agonies.
  3. He was born in Mississippi to a distinguished family and in high school was a mediocre student whose main interest was football.
  4. An older friend introduced him to avant-garde literature, and he soon preferred reading and attempting to write to working in his grandfather's bank.
  5. In 1918 he enlisted in the Canadian air force, hoping to see action in World War I, but the war ended before he completed flight training.
  6. Faulkner published his undistinquished first novel, Soldier's Pay, in 1926.n his third novel, Sartoris (1929), he hit his stride, creating his fictional realm, Yoknapatawpha County, and a southern family full of foolhardy, suicidally defiant men and suffering, caring women.
  7. In his next novels he enlarged this portrait of a South wracked by grief and defeat,
  8. clinging to old values while struggling to embrace the harsh rationality of modern capitalist America.
  9. Faulkner married this historical imagination to a profound humanism and a readiness to experiment with a wide range of fictional techniques.
  10. His books are full of convoluted time sequences and interior monologues, exploring his characters' deepest drives and unrecognized anxieties.
  11. Although some critics and reviewers praised his talent, for twenty years Faulkner's novels sold poorly.
  12. He made his living with straightforward stories written for magazines and stints as a Hollywood screenwriter.
  13. In 1944 Faulkner's career was apparently at a dead end.
  14. He seemed doomed to be regarded as a regional writer with a very small following
  15. He was out of step with the social realism and left-leaning ideology that had dominated fiction in the preceding decade.
  16. In 1946 an astonishing reversal of fortune began
  17. Viking Press published The Portable Faulkner with a prescient foreword by critic Malcolm Cowley, asserting that Faulkner was a writer exploring universal themes.
  18. In 1948 he was elected to the prestigious National Academy of Arts and Letters and in 1949 was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature.
  19. In the next ten years he collected a National Book Award and two Pulitzer Prizes.
  20. Abandoning his reclusive life in Oxford, Mississippi, he toured as a lecturer and became a writer in residence at the University of Virginia.
  21. Affluence enabled him to take up fox hunting and other pleasures of the southern gentleman.
  22. He died from injuries from a fall from a horse, a denouement a Faulknerian narrator would have appreciated.
  23. His last book, The Rievers, published a month before his death, is a nostalgic look at Yoknapatawpha County in 1905.
  24. Near its close, Lucius Priest, a young man who is just beginning to grasp the power of the past

"William Faulkner." The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2008. Encyclopedia.com. 2 May. 2010 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.
  1. Born into an old Southern family named Falkner
  2. He changed the spelling of his last name to Faulkner when he published his first book
  3. a collection of poems entitled The Marble Faun
  4. in 1924. Faulkner trained in Canada as a cadet pilot in the Royal Air Force in 1918
  5. attended the Univ. of Mississippi in 1919-20, and lived in Paris briefly in 1925
  6. In 1931 he bought a pre-Civil War mansion